With the exception of perhaps news about Eliot Spitzer, it’s been a quiet summer thus far with regards to television — and, no, that Jake and Vienna broke up after finding “true love” on The Bachelor doesn’t count. So greet this bit of casting news with as much excitement as you can muster: Read More
2012
Running time 158 minutes
Written by Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt
We Were Warned. So sayeth the tag line for the latest from Roland Emmerich, master of destruction. And you know what? We were! Back with Read More
Frost/Nixon
Running time 122 minutes
Written by Peter Morgan
Directed by Ron Howard
Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Toby Jones, Oliver Platt
Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, from the screenplay by Peter Morgan, based on his play, succeeds magnificently in re-creating the historic 1977 television interview as a gripping suspense Read More
Frost/Nixon
Running time 122 minutes
Written by Peter Morgan
Directed by Ron Howard
Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Toby Jones, Oliver Platt
If timing is everything, what better moment than the eve of a new presidency to unveil Ron Howard’s riveting, psychologically astute film version of Frost/Nixon? With Read More
Toward the end of the film Frost/Nixon, based on the Peter Morgan play of the same name, Frank Langella‘s Richard Nixon wonders whether his legacy will prevent young people from aspiring to a life in politics. "They’ll think it’s all just corrupt," he laments.
"I always felt that line was powerful," director Ron Read More
A few words about the wonderfully vulgar Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, sometimes known as “The Big Yin” or “The World’s Only Violent Hippie”:
What I love most about him is that he’s the only comic I’ve seen in my life who laughs uproariously at his own jokes. “Jokes” isn’t quite right. His accounts of dealing, Read More
Wednesday, Dec. 13
Oliver Platt. Gabriel Byrne. Jennifer Connelly. Lili Taylor. Giancarlo Esposito. Tom Conti. Hope Davis. Bebe Neuwirth. Tom Everett Scott. Jennie Garth. Adam Goldberg.
You could assemble a pretty good feature-film cast with all of the unemployed or soon-to-be-unemployed television actors wandering around New York. That’s because the fall television season has Read More
Places, you hacks! Here comes the premiere of Deadline , a.k.a. Porno for Journos, the Dick Wolf-created, Oliver Platt-starring drama that some folks hope is going to give the newspaper biz its first big wet TV kiss since Lou Grant argued with Mrs. Pynchon and Rossi went out on assignment with Animal for the last Read More
There sat Oliver Platt, the swarthy, tousled actor known for his portrayal of cowardly suck-ups. He was at the game , Knicks-Pacers, Conference Finals, Game 4.
A white NBC identification tag hung from his neck. Courtside, an NBC producer’s clipboard designated him simply as “NBC promo position # 2.” Sure enough, late in the third Read More
Yes, ABC dragged out Regis Philbin at Radio City Music Hall with a puff of white smoke and that dramatic, clinky Who Wants to be a Millionaire soundtrack. Yes, they did a joke about the Time Warner Cable blackout, suddenly interrupting a clip of ABC programming with a blue screen and that ugly Disney Has Read More
